National carrier Air India cancelled a Jeddah-bound flight from the city via Hyderabad late Friday night, eight hours after its scheduled departure time and without offering any reason to around 300 harried passengers.

Abdul Samee Syed has won the first place in the first race of prestigious Bahrain Supersport Championship which started on Friday here.

With the every passing day, Bengaluru, the Capital City of Karnataka is staggering under increasing air pollution. In the last eight months, total 1127 heart attack cases were reported from Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology in the city.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday said the state produces high quality bamboo and the flutes used by music maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia are made from the bamboo available in the state.

The BJP-IPFT government in Tripura has decided to plant bamboo in 2,500 hectare land in the state, Deb said.

Nineteen Naxals including eight women surrendered Friday in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, a police official said.

The Karnataka High Court on Friday gave a big relief to actor Arjun Sarja who was under threat of arrest.

Three persons, including a seven-month-old child, have tested positive for Zika in Madhya Pradesh, a central expert team, which had gone to the state Thursday to assess the cases, has confirmed.

Joining the chorus for the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Union Minister Vijay Goel said Friday it should be done at the earliest even if a legislation is required.